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Expert: Access to personal data

webfull — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:37:10 +0000

Elon Musk’s team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has sought access to data from various U.S. government departments and agencies. This has caused concerns that DOGE will gain access to potentially sensitive data on millions of Americans.

Published: 28 February 2025

Celebrating science fair mentor clubs and judging in Kahnawà:ke

webfull — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:30:38 +0000

For the second year in a row, Science Outreach and student volunteers from the ��ϲ�� BrainReach and Chemistry Outreach groups collaborated with the Kahnawà:ke Education Center and local schools for their annual Science Fair and science mentor clubs.

Published: 25 February 2025

Changes to Signals Notebook and ChemDraw

webfull — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:38 +0000

Revvity, the vendor of Signals Notebook and ChemDraw, is changing the portal used to access this software package. See below for specifics regarding the changes to each software.

Changes to Signals Notebook

The vendor is replacing the current version of Signals Notebook with a new version that will be accessed through the new portal. Any data saved in the cloud of the current version of Signals Notebook will be deleted after Friday, Feb. 28, 2025.

If you have logged into your Signals Notebook account since 2023:

Published: 12 February 2025

Proactively exposing ecosystems to mild environmental stressors appears to offer protection, study finds

webfull — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:05:32 +0000

Mild, proactive exposure to environmental stress can help biological communities resist severe disturbances and maintain genetic diversity, a recent study from ��ϲ�� University has found.

Published: 19 February 2025

Paul Masset and David Rolnick awarded 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships

webfull — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:27:07 +0000

Professors Paul Masset (Psychology) and David Rolnick (Computer Science) have been named Sloan Research Fellows.

Published: 18 February 2025

TA Award (Fall 2024) - Mathematics & Statistics

webfull — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:19:54 +0000

Dear Students and Fellow Colleagues,

It gives me great pleasure to announce the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award winners for the Fall 2024 term.

Congratulations to Rudy Ariaz (MATH 242), Ruben Calzadilla-Badra (MATH 141), Edward Chernysh (MATH 254), Maxwell Kaye (MATH 223), Othmane Oukrid (MATH 223), and Aaron Shalev (MATH 242).

Honorable mention goes to William Holman-Bissegger (MATH 475) and Kevin Xiao (MATH 242).

Published: 17 February 2025

From Lab to Life: Science Literacy Week @ ��ϲ�� this February!

webfull — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:47:30 +0000

Join ��ϲ�� to celebrate the joys of science with Science Literacy Week! From February 22nd to 28th, delve into this year's theme, From Lab to Life and explore science in the everyday. Events include a study on the ancient Egyptian animal mummies in the Redpath Museum, a tour of the Maude Abbott Medical Museum, Science History Treasures in ��ϲ��’s Rare Books and Special Collections, and much more. Learn more here.

Published: 7 February 2025

Four ��ϲ�� Faculty of Science students and graduates named finalists for the McCall MacBain Scholarships

webfull — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:22:39 +0000

Faculty of Science students Joshua Cheruvathur (BSc'25) and Elaine Xiao (BSc'25), as well as graduates Antoine Bourdin (BSc'24) and Chanel Perreault (BASc'22), are finalists for the McCall MacBain Scholarships at ��ϲ��.

Published: 5 February 2025

How a ��ϲ�� student’s teenage curiosity led to the first megalodon discovery in Canada

webfull — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:08:27 +0000

Louis-Philippe Bateman’s fascination with megalodon began with a single sentence in a book about Canada’s geological evolution. It described giant, mysterious fossilized shark teeth discovered in the 1960s by fishermen dredging for scallops off Canada’s Atlantic coast. The curiosity felt by the teenager with a budding interest in paleontology would resurface in a meaningful way during his undergraduate years at ��ϲ�� University.

Published: 4 February 2025

When using music to alleviate pain, tempo matters

webfull — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:32:01 +0000

Music has the best chance of providing pain relief when it is played at our natural rhythm, a ��ϲ�� University research team has discovered.

This suggests it may be possible to reduce a patient’s level of pain by using technology to take a piece of music someone likes and adjust the tempo to match their internal rhythm, the researchers said.

The discovery was the subject of a paper published this week in Pain, the top journal in the field of pain medicine and research.

Published: 3 February 2025

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